MSI to launch AMD 890FX mainboard 890FX-GD70 next year

[Oliverda]

According to coolarer, AMD will be announcing a new chipset for AM3. This new chipset is AMD 890FX. It was planned for launch in Q2 2010. Rumours said that manufacturing will start in 2010 Jan/Feb and will go to retali in April 2010.

At the mean time, they have got hold of a photo of the upcoming MSI board based on AMD 890FX chipset MSI 890FX-GD70.



SOURCE: ocworkbench

A little comparison:

[Manicdan]

a little to much PCIe?

if you go to the link it goes over a few basics in a language i cant read, but did see the words USB3.0 and SATA3

sofar i love it, but i wonder if it will be overpriced being out so early, and how obsolete it will be for BD

[Sh1tyMcGee]

More companies should go in MSI's direction for layout and looks, black/blue/white looks great.

[Helloworld_98]

only 4-pin CPU power and hardly any space for a heatsink, nice one MSI.

[tech]

wow...seriously??
very2 good desain...

[Manicdan]

are those the buttons? or just stickers to show the different button? they look flat and im sure its possible they are fully functional, just cant tell if thats the final design

[Sorrow13]

Am i counting that correctly...6 PCIe x16 slots? Do we know how many are full 16x and how many are 8x?

[Mean Machine]

They have touch buttons on the P55-GD80 already, they feel weird, but they're stylish. Also, the power connector is 8-pin, if you look closer, Helloworld.

The most surprising thing is that there's pictures of a board already...

[Oliverda]

Personally I don't like that big blue somethig on the PWM heatsink. It's ugly and it prevents the free airflow.

Overall I expected more from this board. It looks like a simple evolution of the 790FX-GD70 and nothing more. No Hi-c Cap, no Vkit, no SFC, no OC Dashboard...

We need a Big Bang-Trinergy like board for the upcoming six-core AMD CPUs. Come on MSI!

[Manicdan]

i also feel like ripping off the big blue "dr mos" wing. the silver underneath would probably look nicer too

[FlawleZ]

Exciting!

USB 3.0
SATA 3
6X PCI-E

7 SATA vs 8 SATA on 790FX? New RAID controller for 890FX?

Looks promising!

[Piotrsama]

are those the buttons? or just stickers to show the different button? they look flat and im sure its possible they are fully functional, just cant tell if thats the final design

Haha, what about that OC_drive?
I can already see pro OCers turning that thing and saying: "give me more OC!!! Damn it!"

[Starscream]

are those the buttons? or just stickers to show the different button? they look flat and im sure its possible they are fully functional, just cant tell if thats the final design

looks like its printed on and if this board doesnt have those buttons then we wil likely soon see a Deluxe version that does have a power and reset button on the board.

[Jaivan]

only 4-pin CPU power and hardly any space for a heatsink, nice one MSI.

There is actually a cover on the CPU power so it's actually 8-pin.

[Hyperhorn]

Those buttons are fully functional for sure - they already work on some released MSI motherboards.

[Knight]

are those the buttons? or just stickers to show the different button? they look flat and im sure its possible they are fully functional, just cant tell if thats the final design

I thought those are capacitive buttons. Where the contact by your finger will complete the circuit.

[Wiggy McShades]

looks like its printed on and if this board doesnt have those buttons then we wil likely soon see a Deluxe version that does have a power and reset button on the board.

those are buttons its just they are touch sensitive.

[Manicdan]

lol one question 6 answers, thanks guys. i trust they work, and they better, cause i build my own cases from store bought acrylic, and i never add the power buttons, lol

[IronWarrior]

This is looking good, I like motherboards with lots of PCI-E.

[eric66]

i am glad that msi found its own color. nice to see em so popular my fav mobo company

[Solus Corvus]

a little to much PCIe?

Nope, it's perfect.

[ryan92084]

with the exception of the DrMOS this is a very snazzy board

[initialised]

Nope, it's perfect.

Not quite, there's still one Legacy PCI and an IDE but that helps if you're setting up RAID on a fresh install.

I hadn't been impressed by anything MSi until their P55-GD65 and 790F/GX boards came along. This should go well with the C3 965 and 975.

[Manicdan]

i cant wait till i drop 500$ on a new board and a six core amd chip, just when i thought the credit card companies couldnt hate me enough already. i did expect to do a major upgrade in spring 2010, but its going to be here soon, and i dont know if im ready to commit.

[informal]

a little to much PCIe?

if you go to the link it goes over a few basics in a language i cant read, but did see the words USB3.0 and SATA3

sofar i love it, but i wonder if it will be overpriced being out so early, and how obsolete it will be for BD

Orochi(BD based) is AM3 also,so it won't be any more obsolete than any other AM3 board.It will have a new chipset so if anything else it will provide probably better support for BD cores than the rest of (current) AM3 line-up.